how to make if decision in swiftmailer to check if field is empty then do not send `td` to mail

Question

I'm trying to send email(s) after submitting a form, I want to achieve:

1) If field is empty then no need to send table row to mail. Just like the field age below is optional, user might add his/her age or might not, so how to do it in switmail $message->addPart('Message','text/html') function.

I tried but failed saying: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'if' (T_IF) in... The issue is only with if.. without if statement everything works fine.

$content = '<table>
   ...
   <tr><td>' . $_POST["firstname"] . '<td></tr>
   ' . if(!empty($_POST["age"])) {
          . '<tr><td>' . $_POST["age"] . '</td></tr>' .
       }
     ...
<table>';
$message->addPart($content, 'text/html');

Possible duplicate of [PHP Parse/Syntax Errors; and How to solve them?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18050071/php-parse-syntax-errors-and-how-to-solve-them) — HPierce, Jun 01 '16 at 16:31
@Sharoon what is inside the $_POST[""] that you are using. $_POST["$firstname"], is this in your code — PHCJS, Jun 01 '16 at 16:33
**stap** just stop ... and **RTFM** you can't do an if in the middle of a concat. you have to finish that string do the if and concat it after ;) — Caius, Jun 01 '16 at 16:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '16 at 16:48

0

Do it outside of the $content variable.

$age = (!empty($_POST["age"])) ? '<tr><td>' . $_POST["age"] . '</td></tr>' : '';

$content = '<table>
   ...
   <tr><td>' . $_POST["firstname"] . '<td></tr>'
   . $age . '
     ...
<table>';

answered Jun 01 '16 at 16:48

Thank you soo much, You made me happy dude Excellent. – Sharoon Amjid Jun 01 '16 at 17:04
I'm facing same problem with `foreach`.. how to deal with that? – Sharoon Amjid Jun 01 '16 at 18:56

how to make if decision in swiftmailer to check if field is empty then do not send `td` to mail

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